Behind the Scenes

If you’ve been keeping up with the TamGram, you recently read about the journey to launch our Summer is Coming video collaboration with the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. From inspiration, to concept, to fruition, this project has thrived from the creative skills of everyone involved. And like all of our favorite projects, the story continues. […]

Our goal for every shoot is to convey an engaging, exciting—and most importantly—authentic story. As Tam Communications starts yet another year of working behind the camera to bring our clients’ vision to life, we’ve added a new toy to our production equipment arsenal: the 4K Panasonic Camera. Our cinematographer, Tam, brought out the 4K camera […]

We’re in post-production right now on two videos for our client Lutronic, a Korean-based an aesthetic laser company. We’ve worked with a number of laser companies over the years and what makes Lutronic extra special is that our client is a former Tamster, Tracy Evelshin. We love when we are able to work with former […]

Speaking of opportunities…a lot of our business is repeat business and the rest usually comes to us through word of mouth/referrals. In the case of Holy Names University, that referral came from Mogo Interactive, HNU’s integrated digital marketing firm. We were already working with Mogo with their client Goodguys, so it was great to be […]

We’ve had the fortune to be Barnestorming Advertising’s go-to production company for two decades. Creative Director, Jim Barnes, is a brilliant writer and we love bringing his ideas and words to the screen. We’ve done a lot of work over the years doing just that for TV spots for one of Jim’s clients, the Santa […]

When we created the initial MyBoardwalk Card video, introducing the new Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk’s cashless system, we thought it was a one-off. We had so much fun writing the script, developing the character, nicknamed Wesley, finding just the right voice, and then producing the video. So, it was a real joy that when we […]

Cool Cars. Cool People. Good Times. That’s what you get at a Goodguys giant car show and that’s what we’ve been experiencing working with one of our newest clients, the Goodguys Custom and Rod Association. With 20 shows all across the country, we’ve been producing almost weekly spots for both television and radio since February. […]

We first met Lulu Huang in 2011. She’s the mastermind behind Global Winter Wonderland, the largest Chinese Lantern Festival outside of China. Lulu was bringing the Festival to the United States for the very first time. She had grew up in China and wanted to share the magic of these incredible events to her new […]

My son is a graduate of Santa Clara University and I appreciate every day the education he received there. In truth, I barely visited the campus when he was a student there so lacked an appreciation of how amazing SCU really is. Then, a few years ago, a client we’ve worked with for decades, Jay […]

We’ve been producing a Summer Special for the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk since 2007, the year they celebrated their Centennial (100 years. Wow!). We were asked, at the time, to create a “Look Live” half-hour television special. “Look Live” is a program that looks as if it is happening live but is actually taped and […]

We produce over 40 commercials for the Boardwalk each year and most shared what we called the day and night base (last year we actually had four day bases but that’s another story). We had last shot video for our bases in 2008 and while we had edited new versions a couple of times, we […]

We love return business but having this particular client call us to update the recruiting video we had originally produced for them in 1999 was especially sweet. The City of Sunnyvale’s Department of Public Safety recruiting video was in need of an extreme makeover. You see the Tam team has a particular passion for those […]